1- Common Good
Sydney, Powerhouse Museum 2 March – 2 December
MAAS (Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences) has brought together an incredible line-up of designers and designs for this outstanding exhibition. Exploring on-point themes of Life Cycles, Return to Craft, Connected Experiences, Community and Design Fictions, the remit has allowed for great scope. Yet, where the curatorial hand of Keinton Butler is most apparent is in the very fine designers involved. These include Nendo, Studio Swine, Bijoy Jain, Jo Nagasaka, Kwangho Lee, WOHA and, locally, Ken Wong, Dan Koerner, Paul Marcus Fuog, Lucy McRae and Henry Wilson. Pamm Hong’s Watermelon Sugar Wellness Lab (named after the surreal Richard Brautigan novel) will provide an experiential installation for those wanting to run a health check on their online behaviour, while Ken…
